I was hiking the “Larapinta Trail” which is 230.3 kilometres, along West Macdonnell ranges in Northern Territory, Australia.<\/p>\n
I started my hike on 4th March 2013 and I was hiking alone. The track is fairly remote where you need to carry your food supply for 5 to 6 days at a time if you want to trek the whole trail. You need to carry at least 4 to 5 liters of water depending on the weather (how hot) and the distance to trek for the day.<\/p>\n
During my hike the temperature was between mid to high 35 degrees celsius. On the morning of the 7th of March 2013, the fourth day into my hike I felt extremely exhausted, loss of appetite and I developed gastric problems. I was<\/p>\n
14 kilometres away from the nearest water supply and had no phone reception. <\/p>\n
Even then I continued to hike for another 2 kilometres. For the last 3 days I did not see any other hikers.<\/p>\n
Thereafter I was suffering from possibly dehydration and serious exhaustion due to culmination of several factors. It was only then did I decide to activate “ACR ResQLink 406” personal locator beacon which I purchased from a supplier “Adventure Safety.com” Melbourne, Australia about 3 months ago.<\/p>\n
I activated the beacon about 0826hrs and help arrived about 1045hrs. I was rescued by two people a park ranger and a helicopter pilot. These two people and the two police men, who helped in this ordeal were kind and caring. <\/p>\n
Without the beacon, I probably would not be alive to tell this story.<\/p>\n
I sincerely like to thank the employees of ACR for developing a great, efficient, small and lightweight personal locator beacon. This device certainly saved my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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